Re: [PATCH] fix altsysrq deadlock

[John Richard Moser]

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Jason Baron wrote:
| On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, John Richard Moser wrote:
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| The patch only drops a sysrq that is about to cause a system deadlock. So
| if you haven't had any deadlocks this patch shouldn't have a noticeable
| affect.
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| If a caller wants to rely on handle_sysrq, then it should not be called
| from interrupt context. handle_sysrq can not defer the work, since the
| point of sysrq is to be able get information out when the system is
| potentially unusable. How would you know when to defer the work and when
| not to?

Eh?  Wha?  I was just pointing out that it's useful beyond just
debugging, not proposing any feature changes or stuff.

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| -Jason
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